Monday, July 29, 2013

Easy As ABC QAL!!!!!!

What am I doing??? 
I have enough quilts and other projects on the go at the moment - so why did I sign up to do this one???? The answer??? ......I just can't help myself! LOL. I mean honestly who can so NO to a gorgeous rainbow quilt! 

The lovely Alyce from Blossom Heart Quilts is currently doing an Easy As ABC Quilt Along! Run over 6 months - each month will see you create 5 gorgeous rainbow blocks featuring the alphabet & 1,2,3.
You can check out all the details here!

I would have loved to be able to have brought the gorgeous fabric bundles that Sew Lux are offering  especially for this QAL - but I decided to be good and try and use up all those FQ's that are in my stash! 
In order to accommodate what I had and then try to limit any extras that I had to buy - I rearranged my colour scheme a little so my quilt will turn out a rainbowed like this.....

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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1
2
3

So with colours and fabric sorted - I was off to start sewing!
(I apologise for the photos - long story - but in a nutshell Hubby had to take these on his phone.)


My first row all done! I was surprised at how easy and quick each block comes together.


I used up the last of my gorgeous red dot on red Riley Blake FQ. 


I simply adore this orange! If only the range included more colours instead of the Blue & Orange.


A huge thanks to Jane for coming to the rescue of my lack of yellow!


Want to hear a funny store behind this green???? I was given a Melly & Me Monkey softie kit for Christmas off my very soon to be SIL. I was short 1 light green and stumbled across this kit. So I thought I would be sneaky and cut the paper pattern out and then roughly pin it to the fabric and cut around it. That way what ever was leftover I could use for this block. Sounds logical! Well guess who only managed to cut out 1 arm and 1 leg in this fabric! Whoops! I sew hope that Busy Thimbles has some of this green left!



I am not sure who this quilt will be for, possibly Mr 4 or one of Hubbies good school friends are due to have their first baby soon, so perhaps to a special little person.

If you are interested in joining in - don't forget to head on over to Alyce's blog and check it all out. The instructions are easy to follow - well if I can do it then anybody can! There are also some wonderful prizes up for grabs too!






3 comments:

  1. Your blocks are looking fab! Love the bright colours!

    Bit of an oops with the monkey- if no luck with replacement fabric, maybe you could make different colour legs/arms look like a design feature!

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  2. Oh no! Your poor monkey!! I agree with Kristy - odd colours would look cool. Monkeys are a fun creature anyway ;)

    Thanks so much for joining in, Kelly!

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  3. Thanks girls - yep I think some different coloured appendages will be in order.

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